Brisbane, CA : sneaking up the San Bruno Mountain

It is surely cheaper to make interventions that have an impact early than to react later. The modern version of the age-old wisdom still applies: 28.3g of prevention is worth 0.454 kilos of cure.

Nutrition, Food for thought, Economist, January 21st-27th 2006.

It sounds ridiculously and it is ridiculous. Though I did not come upon the wisdom mentioned above, I believe it is "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

Units conversion in a popular saying is like a machine translation of poetry.

...Another little known technical term is the 'boggle'. This is a measure of a time a writer sits staring blankly at his typewriter trying to think up some way of explaining terms like ‘roentgen'. It is equal to 1.5 ounces of Irish whiskey. A roentgen, by the way, is 1.0 E+14 boggles.

Sheldon Novick, editor of the monthly periodical Environment, June 1970.